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   2 * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.
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   4 * Implement other text formatting properties.
   5 ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
   6 ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
   7    Don't break the line between two characters that have the
   8    same value of this property.
   9 ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
  10
  11 * Implement something better than the current Refill mode.  This
  12   probably needs some primitive support.
  13
  14 * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
  15   different parts of a buffer.
  16
  17 * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
  18   output to a different filter.
  19
  20 * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
  21   on text properties in the error message lines.
  22
  23 * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
  24   useful sense).
  25
  26 * Make movemail work with IMAP.
  27
  28 * Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files,
  29   so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes.
  30
  31 * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
  32   which gives the same information through a menu structure.  [Dave
  33   Love started on this.]
  34
  35 * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
  36   GNU Privacy Guard for encryption.  [Code exists but isn't assigned.]
  37
  38 * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
  39   for undoing.
  40
  41 * Change the Windows NT menu code
  42   so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
  43   regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
  44   when the user tries to use the menubar.
  45
  46   This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
  47   the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
  48   thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated
  49   the whole menu bar.  In the mean time, it should process other messages.
  50
  51 * Make Emacs work as a Java Bean.
  52
  53 * Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule.
  54
  55 * Document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
  56   ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).  Here's
  57   a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, artist,
  58   ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, completion,
  59   delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, easymenu,
  60   expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], generic/generic-x [various
  61   modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit [obsolete?], makesum, midnight
  62   [other than in Kill Buffer node], mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag,
  63   mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be
  64   interactive?], strokes [start from the web page], talk, thingatpt
  65   [interactive functions?], type-break, vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode
  66   [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, swedish, feedmail [?], uce,
  67   bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode,
  68   spell, texinfo, underline, cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?],
  69   pcomplete, assoc, xml, cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual);
  70   other progmodes, probably in separate manual.
  71
  72 * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs
  73   significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?).  Check the
  74   assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been
  75   missed.
  76
  77 * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
  78   keymap.c).  What should it do apart from being opaque ?
  79   multiple inheritance ?  faster where-is ?  no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
  80   what else ?
  81
  82 * Provide real menus on ttys.  The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
  83   an example how to do part of this.
  84
  85 * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
  86   macros in cl-macs.
  87
  88 * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs).
  89
  90 * Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
  91
  92 * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
  93   properly with variable-pitch faces.
  94
  95 * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library.
  96
  97 * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
  98   mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
  99   They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
 100
 101 * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
 102
 103 * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
 104   automatically.
 105
 106 * Update the FAQ.
 107
 108 * Support dynamically-loadable primitive support using libtool and
 109   support similarly to Guile.  [Some work has been done.]
 110
 111 * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
 112   [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
 113
 114 * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
 115   ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
 116   environment.  What should not be ignored needs consideration.
 117
 118 * Investigate using the language environment to set up more things,
 119   such as the default Ispell dictionary.
 120
 121 * Improve the GC (generational, incremental).  (We may be able to use
 122   the Boehm collector.)